Publisher [Amsterdam] : Gedruckt t'Amsterdam by Fredrick de Witt ...

Collection getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor Getty Research Institute

Contributor Getty Research Institute

Getty c. 2 lacks the 6 letterpress pages of pt. 2

Copy 2 bound with: Afbeelding van 't stadt huys van Amsterdam / Jacob van Campen. Amsterdam : Frederick de Widt, ca. 1664 (SPECIAL 85-B11659)

Binding, c. 1: vellum. Dutch title written at head of spine

Copy 1 has Theodore Besterman's calligraphic label, signed P.S

Previously published by Hubertus Quellinus, 1655-1663

Title of pt. 1 in Latin, Dutch, and French; of pt. 2 in Latin and Dutch

Both pts. have etched t.p.'s, and pt. 1 has full-page port. of Artus Quellinus by his brother Hubertus. The 48 plates of Artus Quellinus's sculptures in pt. 1 are as given in Fowler (274) for the 1st ed., except that there is only one unmarked plate (with three details lettered P, L, Q) rather than two, and plate B is double page as well as A, C & F. The 55 plates of 2nd pt. correspond to Fowler, except that there are four plates marked T rather than three, and three marked W rather than two; additionally the two plates marked V are printed on separate leaves. Pt. 2 includes two unmarked double-page plates dated 1665, and two double-page plates with folded triangular extensions at both sides, one of them dated 1664; these were not present in the 1st ed., though Fowler's copy includes them

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